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Flashback Weekend Horror Convention all begins tomorrow, and I have been hyping it up this week with great memories and fun behind-the-scenes stories. Now, it's time to make your own memories and stories this weekend at the Hyatt Regency O'Hare from Friday, August 2nd thru Sunday August 4th. Below is a full schedule of events and activities for this year's convention with highlights of the stuff I'm most excited about and/or participating in. There is certainly A LOT here,

As this week's tribute to The Flashback Weekend Horror Convention continues here at the Blog, I would like to share some of YOUR favorite stories and memories from Flashback Weekends of the past. I received a ton of fun stories from you (thank you so much for sharing!) and, since I wrote about my five moments, I narrowed yours down to five, too. 1) From ROB "Horror, particularly slashers, was one of my gateways into cinema. Robert Kojder with Freddy Krueger himself, Robert E

This week I’m dedicating all posts to my favorite event of the year, The Flashback Weekend Horror Convention. Today, I’m focusing on my Top 5 Flashback moments from the past 22 years. 1 ) MEETING & INTERVIEWING JOHN CARPENTER 2012: John Carpenter and me during his Q&A Without question, the highlight of my 22 years as host/moderator at Flashback was in 2012 when my favorite director of all time, John Carpenter , was a special guest. My life changed when I saw "Halloween" in 19

[Don Coscarelli's book Phiction is available on Amazon ] In the spring of 1979 a low-budget horror film called "Phantasm" was released, and to put it mildly, I lost my (almost) 14 year-old mind. I had never seen anything like it (and I had seen HUNDREDS of horror movies by that point in my life), I loved it, and became obsessed with it. It was so crazy, it got to the point where I went to the theater to see it over 100 times that summer...I am not kidding, over 100 times in